This is a congressional resolution that makes a broad statement about human rights and interconnected global injustices. Rather than creating new laws, it expresses the House's position that suffering and oppression experienced by marginalized communities—from Chicago to Palestine to the Democratic Republic of the Congo to Puerto Rico—are connected and rooted in systems like racism, colonialism, capitalism, and imperialism. The resolution argues that true national security comes from meeting people's basic needs (housing, food, healthcare, safety) rather than military force alone. It calls for the U.S. to reckon with its role in human rights violations, support self-determination for oppressed communities worldwide, and shift away from policies involving mass detention, militarism, and economic exploitation. The resolution defines key concepts like intersectionality, bodily autonomy, and the 'global majority' (people systematically excluded from power and resources). It documents specific harms including mass incarceration (particularly affecting Black and Native Americans), immigration detention, housing insecurity affecting billions globally, healthcare access denied by profit motives, land dispossession of Indigenous peoples, and deaths from post-9/11 wars. While this resolution doesn't directly change laws or create enforcement mechanisms, it represents a formal congressional statement rejecting current approaches to security, immigration, healthcare, and foreign policy in favor of a human rights-centered framework.

Ramirez, Delia C.

Recognizing, from Chicago to Palestine to the Democratic Republic of the Congo to Puerto Rico, that the pain, violence, and oppression the global majority experiences are interconnected, acknowledges that the future must be self-determined, and affirms our humanity and dignity through a renewed mandate for human rights.